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10-letter words containing a, s, o, p, t, c

  • despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
  • episcopant — a bishop
  • episcopate — The office or term of office of a bishop.
  • ethnoscape — A transnational distribution of correlated people.
  • factorship — The business of a factor.
  • hypocausts — Plural form of hypocaust.
  • hypostatic — of or relating to a hypostasis; fundamental.
  • impactions — Plural form of impaction.
  • ipso facto — by the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed: to be condemned ipso facto.
  • jockstraps — Plural form of jockstrap.
  • lactoscope — an optical device for determining the amount of cream in milk.
  • leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
  • meatoscope — (medicine) A speculum for examining a natural passage, such as the urethra.
  • miscaption — to provide with an incorrect caption
  • neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
  • nonplastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
  • occipitals — Plural form of occipital.
  • opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
  • open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
  • optic axis — (in a crystal exhibiting double refraction) the direction or directions, uniaxial or biaxial, respectively, along which this phenomenon does not occur.
  • oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
  • pantoscope — a panoramic camera
  • parodistic — parodic.
  • part-score — a contract to make less than the number of tricks required for game: to bid a part-score of three diamonds.
  • pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
  • pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
  • phosphatic — of, relating to, or containing phosphates: phosphatic slag.
  • physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
  • pictorials — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
  • plant cost — the cost to a business of mechanical equipment
  • pleonastic — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
  • pocahontas — (Rebecca Rolfe) 1595?–1617, American Indian woman who is said to have prevented the execution of Captain John Smith.
  • podcasting — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
  • polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
  • polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
  • postatomic — existing since or subsequent to the explosion of the first atomic bomb or the invention of atomic weapons: the political tensions of the postatomic world.
  • postattack — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
  • postcoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
  • postimpact — occurring after an impact
  • postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
  • postocular — located behind the eye
  • postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
  • postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
  • profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
  • psychopath — a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
  • pultaceous — resembling pap
  • put across — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • scatophagy — the act of eating dung or excrement
  • scatoscopy — examination of the feces for diagnostic purposes.
  • scout camp — organized outdoor activity for boys
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